MY QUARANTINE RECOMMENDATIONS ｜｜ What to read, watch, and play!
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In this episode, I talk about what to do with your time while in quarantine and what to watch, play, and read while you wait for the quarantine to end. I also talk about some of my favorite things to do at home while you re in quarantine.
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Hello beautiful ladies and welcome to today's video where I'm going to be talking about my
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quarantine recommendations to watch, play, and read.
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So we're all in quarantine because of the coronavirus and that has been really hard
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on a lot of people and it's just been demoralizing trying to figure out what we should do with our
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time. The fact that we have to do social distancing as well, it's just a really tricky time for us
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all. But I don't want to get too much into the emotional aspect of this because I find that it
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actually makes everything feel a lot harder. But instead, let's talk about the stuff that is really
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fun that we can use our time to do while we're at home. And so the first thing I want to talk about
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is books. Before I start talking about all of the things that I've been enjoying kind of spending my
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time doing and sharing with my husband, I did want to make one recommendation for quarantine. And that
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is these slippers. My mother bought me these slippers from Target and I have been absolutely obsessed. I
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think having a comfortable pair of slippers during this whole thing is a lifesaver and I've loved
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these. So comfortable. They're from stars above and I really like it. I'm going to try and find them
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and link them below. But now let's get on to the main stuff I want to talk about. So I wanted to
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recommend this. I got this at the dollar store and I saw it and I was like, I wonder if there's anything
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in here that I don't already know. It's only a dollar. I might as well. And when I opened this up,
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I really didn't believe that there was going to be anything in here that I didn't already know
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or that I wouldn't be able to find on the internet. I found so many good tips in here and I love it.
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It's only, I think, $2.95 on Amazon, which is awesome. And this is just like a really good book
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full of tips for you if you're a beginner or if you're somebody who has a lot of information about
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makeup. I know a lot of stuff about makeup and I still thought a lot of this was really cool and
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interesting. So I really recommend this if you're looking for something that you just want to read.
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If you're kind of tired of watching YouTube videos, pick this up because I really,
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really like it and I think it's something nice to have in your collection.
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To get into some heavier reading, I read Brave New World a few months ago and I loved it. I thought
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it was fascinating. It's really an intense look into our society and it's crazy to think that when
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this was written, so much of what he kind of predicted did happen and a critique of how our
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appetites can lead us astray and make us lose meaning. The idea being that if you're constantly just
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feeding your appetites and not really ever taking the time to think about why we're here,
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then you'll pass time easily enough, but you don't actually learn anything or grow as a society or a
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people or as a person. So definitely pick this up. It's a fast read and worth reading too.
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Another novel that I recommend is called Daughter of the Forest. It's actually the first of a series
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of novels and I think that they are fantastic. Really worth the read. So underrated. People just don't
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talk about them and I don't even remember how I came across it. I must have just picked it up
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at the bookstore. I love these books. I think that they are well written and have such an incredibly
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interesting story. So check those out too. My next recommendation is what I'm reading during this.
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It's this new Eric Larson book. I love Eric Larson. I loved Devil in the White City. I read all the rest
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of his books. I think the only one I didn't finish was Isaac Storm, but I've been reading this one.
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It's a really interesting look at Churchill. It's called The Splendid and the Vile and I picked this up
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at Costco for like half price, but I don't know where you can get it. You can probably get it at a few
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places. I really am enjoying it and I'm learning a lot and that's kind of what I like about Eric Larson
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is that I feel like I'm learning, but I'm also enjoying it as I'm learning because it's written
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almost in the style of fiction. This one I will say is slightly heavier than Devil in the White City.
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It feels more like history. It feels more like, okay, we're learning here, but still really
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fascinating, really enjoying it. And if you guys want to read along with me, go ahead.
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And for something super light and if you're just looking for something to relax and you don't
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really want to watch TV, but instead you want to find something that's just a relaxing read,
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I really highly recommend Sophie Kinsella books. I think they're really fun and I always enjoy reading
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them when I'm feeling a little bit down or if I just kind of want to like relax and not think too
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much about bad things happening. This is a really good book. This is her latest one. She has a bunch
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though that are really fun and I don't like her shopaholic series as much as I like her standalone
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novels. I've got your number is another one I really enjoy, but this is her newest one and it's
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very cute and very fun to read and it's an easy read. So recommend this one too. For some things to
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watch, my husband and I have been watching Deadwood during this quarantine and it is very
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intense, a lot of swearing, not very appropriate, but the characterizations are amazing. And I love
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how every character in the show, even the side characters are totally fleshed out. It's really
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fascinating. If you're okay with watching swearing and a little bit of like inappropriate content,
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then I think it's worth investing your time in. Another show I want to recommend is called Slings
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and Arrows. It's just a really cool story that follows this theater company as they're putting
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on Shakespeare and delving into Shakespeare's works, which, oh my gosh, that speaks to me. So
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if you want to be classic, definitely read Shakespeare, look into Shakespeare, watch operas that are
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Shakespeare. That's my recommendation, but definitely recommend Slings and Arrows. Really cool look at all
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of that stuff. It's not a documentary. It's an actual series and it's fantastic. The acting is
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great. The story is great. And there's some twists and turns that I'm not going to give away that are
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pretty fun. Lastly, a lot of opera companies right now are streaming live performances. The Met is
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streaming all of their Met in HD performances. They're doing one a night and you can just tune in
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and watch. And that's a really good opportunity to watch operas without having to pay for it. It's free.
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So I would totally recommend doing that. Find an opera that you think might be good if you've never
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seen one or one that you already love and just sit down and watch it with the whole family. I think
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that's a really cool thing that these opera companies are doing, bringing opera to everyone
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during this really hard time. And if you are a beginner, I'd recommend The Magic Flute, La Boheme,
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La Traviata, Carmen. Those are good ones to start with. I don't know if they've already kind of put
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those in the lineup, but check it out and see. Now, talking about things to play, my husband and I
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have been playing a couple of different video games. We've been playing Witcher 3 for a while
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now, but I love this game. We actually started playing this because we watched the TV show and
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my husband actually owned this game a long time ago and really hadn't played through it. And we
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started playing through it after watching the TV show because I thought the TV show had a really
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interesting concept, but I didn't love the way that they actually implemented it and realized
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that, oh, you can play video games that are almost like watching a movie. I'm not a big video game
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person. I like video games where it feels like you are in a story and you are getting to watch these
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cut scenes that feel like a film. And Witcher 3 is definitely like that. It's like watching a movie.
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So I really like that. My husband plays the game. I just sit and watch most of the time. Sometimes I play
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myself, but generally not. I really think that it is a fun use of time to do with another person
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and it feels like you're a little bit more active. Another video game my husband and I just got is
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called Vampyr, and it's about a guy who turns into a vampire during the Spanish flu. And we're just
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at the beginning of this game, so I don't know exactly how it's all going to play out, but I like it
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because it's similar to The Witcher 3 in that it's like you're watching a movie a lot of it. There's
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these cut scenes, and then you do sort of fights and whatever in between. The fights I leave to my
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husband, I watch the stuff that's more like a movie. And my last recommendations are some board
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games. My husband and I love board games. If you follow me on Instagram, you'll constantly see
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that in my stories. I'm sharing pictures of us playing. We have a lot of board game nights. We play
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together alone, and I love board games. So a couple of my recommendations. One is scattergories. I love
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categories. It's a way for me to kind of test my brain and see what I can come up with. And sometimes
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I'm absolutely horrible at it. My husband is really good at it, actually. But I just think
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it's fun to see kind of what I can come up with. But I think it's really fun and worth purchasing
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if you can find it. Now, a bigger commitment game, if you're looking for a really big game,
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but you're looking for a game that's just for two people, it's called Gloomhaven. And it's
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really fun. You work through certain scenarios, trying to fight as a team to beat certain obstacles,
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obstacles. It's like being in a video game, but it's a board game. And I really like it. I'm not
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huge on a lot of board games that are like more complicated, but this is one I really enjoy. So
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check that out. It's kind of expensive. But if you're willing to play a legacy game, if you like
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board games a lot, this might be a good fit for you. Another board game that I think is for more
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people, but I actually think is really fun, is called Above and Below. And again, I'll link these all
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below. It's like a fun economic board game. And I don't know if I can explain it that well, but I really
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like the art. And I like the gameplay too, because again, there are these kind of stories that you
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play out as you explore, and they have you read them in scenarios, and it's like choose your own
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adventure. And I like that aspect of it. There's a lot of other aspects of it too, but I like that
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game a lot too. Let me know in the comments below what you guys have been doing to keep up your spirits
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during this quarantine, and what games you've been playing, what books you've been reading, what shows
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you've been watching. I'd really love to hear all that. Any and all recommendations are welcome in the
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